In 2009 I was asked to be a part of the Winter Party
Festival Committee, involved with the VIP Cocktail Reception.  Year after Year having lots of fun organizing
and working with all of the amazing hospitality VIP volunteers, committee
members, and staff, who are to this day close friends and part of my extended
family.

The VIP Cocktail Reception is a special part of the Festival
bringing everyone together for an evening of fun and celebration.  The success of this event and a Big Hand to
all of the outstanding VIP Red Carpet Volunteers who for years have been
volunteering.  Some of these awesome
dedicated volunteers having been volunteering for at least 10 years, take time
off from work, and travel out of state to come to Florida. 

Thank you to all of you for your hard work and to time to
make this event a success year after year.

I am supporting this fundraising event in memory of all of
the fun times in the past and ahead. 
Also I am remembering a very special friend and volunteer Ron Rich, who
enjoyed life volunteering and giving, he will be missed. 

An outstanding thank you to all of the VIP volunteers who
make the VIP Cocktail Reception and all of the Festival Events memorable and
supporting this year’s fundraiser.

In 1994, one thousand people gathered on the sands of South Beach to raise money to combat an antigay ballot initiative through an afternoon of dancing, and Winter Party was born. Winter Party Festival is an annual, week-long celebration of music, dance, and community, produced to raise critical funds for the LGBTQ community.In 2021 we wont be able to gather in person, but funding the work of the Task Force and local organizations is more important than ever before. The money raised from this years Festival will bolster the Task Forces efforts to achieve passage of the Equality Act. Our All of Me, All the Time campaign will work to get Congress to pass this groundbreaking legislation that will explicitly ban discrimination on sexual orientation and gender identity nationwide in housing, public accommodations, employment, healthcare, education and other spaces.Help the Task Force bring us all a little closer to that dream of full equality for all by making a gift to my page.